Bank Project Worker

Sanctuary Group; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a compassionate Bank Project Worker to support individuals facing homelessness. This role involves providing vital assistance to help clients regain their independence, assessing their needs, and developing personalized support plans. You'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact by fostering relationships and guiding clients towards employment and education. Join a not-for-profit organization that values diversity and inclusivity, offering a range of benefits and development opportunities to enhance your career in social care. If you're ready to make a difference, this is the role for you!

Benefits

Online discounts and rewards

Health and well-being plans

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience supporting adults facing homelessness is essential.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to help customers maximize their potential.
• Assess needs and update support plans for customers.
• Liaise with external links to enhance customers' wellbeing.

Skills

Experience with homelessness support

Strong organizational skills

Ability to work in a team

Functional literacy and numeracy

Enthusiastic and flexible attitude

Ability to react to changing priorities

Education

NVQ3 in Health and Social Care

Job description

Bank Project Worker
Northgate Street, 11 Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 1HQ
£13.34 per hour
Hours as and when required

Sanctuary Supported Living is delighted to be recruiting for a Bank Project Worker at our Homelessness Service, at Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds.
At Sanctuary Supported Living, we specialise in delivering a wide range of personalised housing, care, and support services to help people across England to live as independently as possible.
We’re a national organisation, but we’re not-for-profit and we think locally by putting our customers at the heart of what we do. We’re committed to being our best and helping customers to be their best, as we support them on their pathways for independence.

The role of Bank Project Worker will include:

1. Providing support to encourage our customers who have faced homelessness to maximise their own potential and independence
2. Assessing customers’ needs by writing and updating support plans
3. Being a first point of call to receive and direct all customer queries
4. Developing relationships with customers, ensuring that customers maintain personal choice, privacy, and dignity
5. Liaising with external support links to improve customers’ confidence, health and wellbeing and offer training and encouragement towards employment and education
6. Handling occasional emergency situations
7. Keeping accurate and high-quality written records

Skills and experiences:

1. Experience of working with adults who have experienced homelessness
2. Enthusiastic and flexible with a strong “can-do” attitude
3. Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
4. Strong organisational skills as well as functional literacy and numeracy
5. Ability to react quickly to changing priorities whilst working to deadlines and targets
6. NVQ3 in Health and Social Care, or willingness to work towards is essential

Are you ready to be your best?
Brilliant work deserves brilliant benefits! As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary Supported Living a great place to work, here are just some of the ways we’ll reward you:

• A variety of online discounts and rewards from major retailers
• Health and well-being plans
• A wide range of learning and development opportunities

Job Reference: 224323

We are only currently accepting applications from those with the right to work in the UK.

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We might get a lot of applications so reserve the right to withdraw this advertisement at any time. Don’t miss out, please apply early.

Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference. We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission. We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary’s commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.

Building Equality and Diversity

Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers.
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent illegal working.
An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be necessary in the event of a successful application which we will pay for.
Sanctuary Supported Living is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association and Sanctuary Home Care Limited, both exempt charities.